Praise for Lichfield District Council’s TwitterPlan project

Lichfield District Council have been praised for leading the way with a new online planning tool.

TwitterPlan, created by the council’s Stuart Harrison, allows people to subscribe to planning alerts on social networking site Twitter.

Other councils are already looking to utilise the tool which can give users applications relating to their street, neighbourhood or wider area.

And now digital media expert Rick Waghorn – founder of MyFootballWriter – has heaped praise on the development.

Writing on his blog, Mr Waghorn said:

“Three cheers to all concerned – particularly Stuart Harrison. And fair play too to Lichfield District Council, they’re doing their job – digitally engaging with their 2009 ‘audience’; delivering them the kind of eminently useful and appropriately-targetted service that I, as a district council tax-payer, would expect and applaud.